No need to wait for Sundance, you can come watch some great original filmmakers today :) We've just launched an on-demand screening room for a few films by Brooklyn-based Fritz Donnelly.
You can read all abou it at http://openvision.tv/blog/?p=111 The two films, *Double Mastermind* and *Clone War 3,* are two extremely unique and highly amusing shorts <http://cruxy.com/tothehills>. Both films happen in video game-like worlds with teams of characters battling out their shared destinies - not so different from some of the events during the recent clone war of Second Life <http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2006/11/clones_pwnd.html> or the plots of the Battle Royal <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/> series of films from Japan. Bringing film and video into 3-d virtual worlds provides an experience that is much closer to "real life" than just watching a streaming video in a web browser. Through Second Life, Cruxy can provide a simulated screening room that brings back the feeling of watching a movie as part of an audience - complete with snide comments, communal laughs, and the occasional annoying guy walking in front of the screen. I've had the pleasure already of watching Fritz's films with a number of visitors from around the world, and really enjoyed being able to talk with them in realtime, while eating our sim-popcorn. SL also allows us to experiment with new forms of merchandising like handing out props and outfits worn in the films. That's my avatar, Nat Mandelbrot, in the "clone orange" jumpsuit doing my best imitation of Fritz' doomed characters. Best, Nathan aka "Nat Mandelbrot" in Second Life Digital Buddha wrote: > > On the heels of the announcement that Four Eyed Monsters will be having a > screening in Second Life, Sundance has announced that they are building > Studio 4A to premier new works: http://www.sundance channel.com/ > secondlife/ <http://www.sundancechannel.com/secondlife/> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > -- cruXy: buy/sell/promote independent original creativity http://cruxy.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
